emoptiness. holding it
90 x 90 cm
pastel on paper, 2026
90 x 90 cm
pastel on paper, 2026
liisa mudist
, painter , poet , critic ,
My practice often creates figures that are simultaneously personal and fictional, separate from myself yet connected to my experiences. Through self-portraiture and sometimes other figures (horse, plants), I explore identities that are unstable, layered, and shaped through acts of presentation and interpretation.The mediums I work with are painting, animation, poetry, and sound. I use image making — depicted through both words and pictures — as a way of thinking. Through painting, drawing, animation, and poetry, I allow figures, symbols, and imagined spaces to emerge, through which personal and social experiences can become visible. The figures and images transform psychological, social, and emotional states.
My practice is rooted in my experience as a queer and trans-masculine person, but I approach queerness not as much as a subject matter, but as one origin point from which I look into how selves are formed.
Upcoming or current or recent past exhibitions
- 30.04.2026 "Tõde ja Õigus" 100. Sada pilku romaanile, Kastellaani galerii, Tallinn
- 14.03.2026 Kevadnäitus, Kunstihoone & EKL galeriid, Tallinn
- 6.02.2026 - 30.04-2026 "Võrk", Bar Salong, Tartu
- 2025 Through the facets of m/y eyes I have no unitary vision of your body,
The Blue Verve Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
- 2025, Enkeleitä, onko heitä?, Lou Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
- 2025, Naised purskkaevul, Kastellaani Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
- 2025 liberty of saying nothing but also really meaning it,Toinen Silmä, Helsinki, Finland
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* you can contact me for the text file: liisamdst@proton.me